How was your week, guys? Mine was buuuuusy! I worked some magic for Elizabeth and Maggie, took a little day trip to enjoy the fall colors and helped two good friends wedding it up. Fun!Links! For you!

I’ve got space for two more hookup requests and heaps more hookup offers in October’s Network of Nice. Send me 50ish words (sarah (at) yesandyes (dot) org) about your un-Googleable, non-promotional hookup and I’ll tell the internet all about it. If you’re launching a new product and need beta testers or want to hone some skills (in exchange for feedback and testimonials) before you launch a freelance business, The Network of Nice is a great place to start!

I love the idea of the Good and Cheap cookbook – recipes to help you eat well on $4 a day. You can download the whooooole book in pdf form here (for free!). Let’s all thank Leanne for her lovely, important work by tipping for said pdf, yeah?

Part of my anxiety about disclosure is that I fear having intruded upon you in some way — as if you’re going to go home and rue the day you met me, because now you have to deal with knowing this thing that I know all the damn time.

If it’s a recent diagnosis, tell us that our choice to seek the professional help that resulted in that diagnosis was a mature, brave one.

Because it is, and because we often feel that we should have done a better job of “toughing it out,” or “dealing with it on our own.”

Because, for real, it (whatever your “it” is) can be simple. Which, hold up, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to be EASY, but easy is overrated and comfort is often the opposite of greatness, so let’s just all agree that being who we want to be takes work and that sometimes that work feels impossible and frustrating and sometimes we lay on the floor and cry for no reason. Yes? Okay. But the fact that things might be hard doesn’t mean that they need to be complicated.

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